South Africa vs Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- South Africa
- Southern Africa
How they compare
Southern Africa currently reports 127,763 1000 ha against 64,444 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 63,319 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Africa's figure about 2.0 times South Africa's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Africa has been ahead every year.
South Africa ranks 7th and Southern Africa ranks 11th of 224 countries.
Southern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | South Africa | Southern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 64,138 1000 ha | 128,266 1000 ha | 64,128 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2000s | 64,507 1000 ha | 128,445 1000 ha | 63,937 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2010s | 64,559 1000 ha | 128,216 1000 ha | 63,657 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2020s | 64,450 1000 ha | 127,857 1000 ha | 63,407 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, South Africa or Southern Africa?
- Southern Africa, at 127,763 1000 ha against 64,444 1000 ha in South Africa as of 2022.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between South Africa and Southern Africa?
- 63,319 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for South Africa and Southern Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do South Africa and Southern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- South Africa ranks 7th and Southern Africa ranks 11th of 224 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.